Re: [SAtalk] Gibberish email addresses

2003-06-09 Thread Lydia Leong
On Jun 09 01:18, Chris Barnes wrote: > Jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is testing for gibberish in email address worth attempting? > > Just a quick note: alot of universities use an automated scheme for the > email addresses they give their students. For example, for the longest > time my e

Re: [SAtalk] Gibberish email addresses

2003-06-09 Thread Chris Barnes
Jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is testing for gibberish in email address worth attempting? Just a quick note: alot of universities use an automated scheme for the email addresses they give their students. For example, for the longest time my email address was cnb1234 (initials + last 4 of t

[SAtalk] Gibberish email addresses

2003-06-09 Thread Jason
Is testing for gibberish in email address worth attempting? In some basic testing I took just the first part of the email address (the left side of the @) and made a simple scoring system based on the switching of the characters from one type to another (alpha, numeric, other). The first charact